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HSK
song
HSK 5
Chinese opera
HSK 6
to bend / to curve around / curved / crooked / to wind / to warp
HSK 6
musical composition
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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tune / song / CL:
HSK 7-9
curve / curved line / indirect / in a roundabout way
HSK 7-9
popular song / folk tune / ballad
HSK 7-9
to twist / to warp / to distort
HSK 7-9
to distort / to misrepresent
HSK 7-9
winding / (fig.) complicated
HSK 7-9
paper clip
Quchi acupoint LI11, at the lateral end of the elbow crease
March of the Volunteer Army (PRC National Anthem)
folk musical theater
famous song / well-known piece of music
concerto
to accept a compromise
Quzhou county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸, Hebei
toccata
overture
hyperbolic cosecant, i.e. function cosech(x)
crankshaft
tetralogy
repertoire / program / song / piece of music
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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surname Qu
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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bent / crooked / wrong
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
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fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc) / Taiwan pr. [qu2]
(math.) curvature
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 但丁
medicated leaven (used in TCM to treat indigestion)
algebraic surface
crooked
symphony
cookie (loanword via Cantonese 曲奇 kuk1 kei4)
nocturne (music)
to compose (music)
constellation governing scholarship and examinations; (fig.) renowned literary genius / brand name of handheld electronic dictionaries made by Beijing company Golden Global View
Quyang county in Baoding 保定, Hebei
Kunqu opera, influential musical theater originating in Kunshan, Jiangsu province in Yuan times
variation (music)
to compose a piece of music
to curl (hair) / to crimp / to roll up / curly
curved space
Yuan dynasty theater, including poetry, music and comedy
Quzhou county in Handan 邯鄲|邯郸, Hebei
poem for singing / tune / music / CL:
hyperbolic cosine or cosh (math.)
Quwo county in Linfen 臨汾|临汾, Shanxi
music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode
to misrepresent / to misinterpret
Yangqu county in Taiyuan 太原, Shanxi
suite (music)
Yuanqu county in Yuncheng 運城|运城, Shanxi
music style; music genre
(of sb who ostensibly collaborated with the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-1945) to secretly work for the Nationalists or against the Communists
to compose (music) / arrangement
Qüxü county, Tibetan: Chu shur rdzong in Lhasa 拉薩|拉萨, Tibet
divertimento (music)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *曲* | 曲* | *曲
variant of 麴|曲
curvature
Hequ county in Xinzhou 忻州, Shanxi
bend (of a river) / meander
verse or song form from Yuan, Ming and Qing
twisted / coiled / curled
hyperbola
lit. right and wrong, crooked and straight (idiom); fig. merits and demerits / pros and cons
brewer's yeast
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
to bend / flexing / deflection
sliding bevel (to measure angles)
sinuous / devious / full details of a story / to stoop
to bow down to everything sb says or does / to act submissively in order to ingratiate oneself
remote village
single (recording industry)
winding and turning (idiom)
circuitous / tortuous / roundabout
difficult songs find few singers (idiom) / highbrow
lit. to bend the chimney and remove the firewood (to prevent fire) (idiom) / fig. to take preventive measures
curved-fire gun (mortar, howitzer etc)
crank handle
Qumarlêb County (Tibetan: chu dmar leb rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 玉樹藏族自治州|玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai
theme song
composer / songwriter
lit. crooked and straight / fig. right and wrong, good and evil
hyperbola / hyperbolic (function)
electronic dance music
episode / brief interlude
composer / song writer
rondo
prelude (music)
to warp / to bend / fig. distorted opinion / prejudice
creasing / folding
red yeast (so called, although it's actually a mold, not a yeast), a fermentation product created by culturing rice with the mold Monascus purpureus, producing red pigments and bioactive compounds, used in food for its color, as a flavor enhancer, and for its health benefits
(military) curved-trajectory fire / plunging fire

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